Floyd's Station was a fort on
Beargrass Creek in what is now
St. Matthews, Kentucky
St. Matthews is a city in Jefferson County, Kentucky, United States. It forms part of the Louisville Metro government but is separately incorporated as a home rule-class city. The population was 17,472 at the 2010 census, up from 15,852 at th ...
. In November 1779
James John Floyd built cabins and a
stockade near what is now Breckenridge Lane. In 1783, John Floyd, future Governor of
Virginia
Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States, between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains. The geography and climate of the Commonwealth ar ...
was born in the Station. The pioneer's father was killed by Indians twelve days before the birth of his son. The station was one of six on Beargrass Creek and was involved in local conflict with Native Americans in the area for the next five years. All that remain today of Floyd's Station are a spring house and cemetery.
Approximate location:
Gallery
Image:James John Floyd.jpg, James John Floyd
Image:John Floyd (cropped).jpg, John Floyd
Image:CHARLESFLOYD.jpg, Charles Floyd
Image:FLOYDSTATIONAREA.jpg, 2008 Area Scene
See also
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Corn Island (Kentucky)
Corn Island, formerly Dunmore's Island, was a former island in the Ohio River at head of the Falls of the Ohio, just north of Louisville, Kentucky. Estimates of the size of Corn Island, now submerged, vary with time, as it gradually was eroded ...
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Fort Nelson (Kentucky)
Fort Nelson, built in 1781 by troops under George Rogers Clark including Captain Richard Chenoweth, was the second on-shore fort on the Ohio River in the area of what is now downtown Louisville, Kentucky. Fort-on-Shore, the downriver and first on- ...
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Fort-on-Shore
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Fort William (Kentucky)
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Spring Station (Kentucky)
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Low Dutch Station
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Bryan's Station
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Station (frontier defensive structure)
A station was a defensible residence constructed on the American frontier during the late 18th and early 19th century.
Many of these structures were built on the Kentucky frontier during the struggle with the British and Native Americans. Accord ...
References
Further reading
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Forts in Kentucky
History of Louisville, Kentucky
Buildings and structures in Jefferson County, Kentucky
Pre-statehood history of Kentucky
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